It's a new decade and a new start for Irish cinema. The economy is fu*ked and the Film Board is not as respected anymore. We're now into the third decade of the current Board and things can't go on as before. Will the next decade produce new Irish movies that succeed at the box office? Will the next decade produce new filmmakers that have an original voice. Or will the same stuff keep getting made? Will successful Irish movies happen more by fluke than by design? Will most Irish films fail to find an audience? Will the IFTAs keep on scraping the barrell to award the most mediocre of Irish feature films? Will fresh new actors appear on our screens or will will keep seeing the same faces again and again? Will the Film Board follow the UK Council and get abolished? Will Perrier's Bounty ever make back its budget? Will Kirsten Sheridan make another feature to justify all the hype (and 'loans' from the Board?). Will there be a splurge of underground low-budget features that get made outside of the 'system' and could develop into a New Irish cinema? Or does anyone really give a sh*t as long as jobs are created and Ireland gets used as a location in foreign films?
Another famous movie with an Irish theme. Set in Africa a TCD graduate heads off alone to find a diamond mine. His daughter gets an explore...
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